An Open Letter to the Creative Poetry Corral
Your success could be the downfall for FriendBurst. Most of what you do could be done in a group and not interfere with other bloggers.
I try to follow friends blogs on FriendBurst but am no longer able to do so because your followers have taken over the blogs. Like the song says, “Don’t bogart the joint, my friend”.
I just ask you to consider the other members of FriendBurst.
I guess for me, that’s the only improvement that can be done here, is that when we post a blog, we post in a category, and we can surf the category we want, rather than all blogs, unless that’s the option.
As an attention whore, I’d have to put the chances of your request going anywhere in this case at pretty slim, my friend. One of the compulsions associated with attention whoring is ‘post whoring’, or overcommenting… [Yes dammitol, I am speaking from personal experience] And it is no easy thing to persuade an attn whore from doing that which they are compelled to do.
But I feel ya on this- no one can say that you didn’t give it a shot.
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I can sypathize with you here Allah. I don’t think the group or pages features hold much appeal here at FriendBurst because they are much more spartan in features that our main blogging WordPress engine has. If you notice, these folks are just like regular bloggers in that they post Gifs, Video, text embedded Gifs and picture comments—and to their credit, there is a considerable number of poets in the group.
It is not their fault that the blog comment notice stream gets saturated and non poet blog comments get pushed down so quickly—it is a technical issue that we all must be patient with.
If you notice, you can adjust your activity stream so that only certain peoples’ activities show up on your stream and you can limit who sees your activities as well. We need this same feature for the blog comment notices on our dashboards so you (for instance) can just put a checkmark beside only certain people or friends names in your list for blog comments so that’s all that would show on your screen.
The problem, (I believe) is that there are so many comments your friends are making all over the blogs that it is difficult to construct the complex script that will give everyone a simultaneously logical set of threading rules. It’s dense code that must be built in small blocks, tested, debugged, then more blocks written, stacked, married, tested, debugged…The subscriptions that took from november to may to develop was probably less dense and fewer lines, (I don’t know for certain).
If you remember, we had a dustup on this exact same subject with the Advocates…
POETRY NAZI!!!!
I wrote a poem for a certain someone around here, but it needs more tweaking before I release to the public. I better not hear any bitching about my poem Mr. Man!!!
Thank you, John.
I usually just ignore the blog stream updates field and stick with monitoring my subscriptions and email updates for replies. Even if it wasn’t overrun by poetry corral stuff, it would still be littered with various serial attention whores. So I just skip it.
Hell yeah,CPC’s pointless stream-flooding has been annoying me for ages. It WOULD be much better suited to a forum,or within their own group.
Why don’t you set your stream to friends only instead of telling other people to get off the stream? You are being a blog fascist, saying what should be blogged and what should not. Since I started taking part in the Poetry Corral I have felt much happier. What annoys me on the blog stream is all the pointless stupidity that passes for blogging, including images of kitchen sinks, toilet jokes, naked female body parts, sexist slurs, attacks on womens rights and endless conservative propaganda. This does not indicate you John, but I am just saying. We all have something to put up with so don’t target the poetry corral. Set your stream to friends only then you won’t see it.
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I like them.
I like seeing their updates.
I would like to see even more diversity on here.
At Myspace I had friends from different walks of life.
I love the Europeans and the Aussies on here.
Certainly the poetry corral does not cause drama or stir up trouble and fights, so why pick on them?
More diversity! more diversity! I want more diversity; I want to see everyone on my stream especially the naked chicks, I remember when it used to be nothing but about politics and war; now at least we got poetry; btw where the hell are the mexicans; I mean Latinos?
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yeah I hate the poetry barn or whatever, ugh.
If you have not already please see my last bulletin on status of Enhancements: http://www.friendburst.com/bulletin/view/id_8758/
We are looking at getting the blog comments to a separate page so we can give a lot more control and flexibility to bloggers. One thing I am hoping is an option to see blog updates from just those blogs you are subscribed to and also have the option for everyone. Telling people who should blog and not blog is just not going to happen here. We are experiencing some growing pains and are working as fast as we can to put things into place that will help. It is some very tricky code we are dealing with, but something we plan to address.
Maybe the problem doesn’t lie with the poetry blogs…this went on with the vegan blogs, the animal blogs..etc. The problem lies with the thinking that whatever we are not interested in should be placed in a group…it’s all about me…right?
Wrong.
The diversity of people and their interests is what makes this site interesting. I remember when there were only a few blogging cliches and they pretty much kept the stream full with their blogs…and no one complained about that…they were busy complaining about everything else. Now the site has grown and there are more people blogging. The stream is easy to follow if you just go to explore and check the blogs that you are interested in. It tells you how many comment your blog has received before you even go to it. There has to be some give and take.
Never thought I’d say it, but I just wish people would go back to complaining about the comments or something…and there will always be something, I am certain.
RC
Hate to be the odd guy out, but I’m liking this system more and more. You get an overall view of what’s going on at the FB site, and people you started out not knowing, you begin to recognize and get acquainted with. Many comments listed for one blog reveal which blog(s) are most popular. I’ve gone to check a blog out just to see what has made it so popular. I don’t patronize the poetry corral much, but I have to say I am impressed with it. The folks are displaying their talents, preserving civility and love toward each other, not competing or being envious that someone has talent besides themselves, but actually working together! If I’m hurriedly looking through the blog comments, I might take my scroller and skim past the poetry corral, then press View More, to find the rest of the blogs. Other times I’ll take a look at what’s being written at the corral. I guess I just don’t mind doing that so I can keep abreast of what’s going on at Friendburst!